Petitioners, Exporters Consolidate Suits on Surrogate Pick in AD Review of Isocyanurates

AD petitioners Bio-Lab, Innovative Water Care and Occidental Chemical Corporation merged their challenge to an antidumping duty review on chlorinated isocyanurates from China at the Court of International Trade with a similar challenge from Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. and Heze Huayi Chemical Co. (Bio-Lab, et al. v. United States, CIT # 24-00024) (Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00026).

Filing a consent motion to consolidate the cases, Bio-Lab said the suits share a "common question of law or fact" since they both challenge the 2021-22 review of the same AD order.

In its complaint, filed in March, Bio-Lab challenged the Commerce Department's surrogate country pick of Romania, claiming that Mexico should have been chosen instead (see 2403010066). The exporters similarly challenged the Romania surrogate pick, though they vied for Malaysia to be the proper choice (see 2403070030).